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ber of hostages to Harley- street (or words to that. effect), particularly of women, due to over-indulgence in pre-dinner drinks and their effect on the liver.
This is sad news; but I doubt if it will affect the consump- tion of cocktails. Their popu- | larity has been diminished hore and there by the higher cost of drinking, but, given a fair chance, the allies of gin and cracked ice will continue their world-wide operations, for the creation of synthetic cheer.
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Full details are now available of the Labour Conference of American States which met at furnished Santiago de Chile recently. This gathering was the first of its kind held since the founda- tion of the International Labour Organisation of the Lengue of Nations after the Great War. The idea behind It was to devote careful study to those industrial problems which are of special
tinent, in the light of the condi-
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The Cocktail Hour-prevla»
Ás 1. Awe fan in origin 'but so widespread that a globe trotter can almost envisage the iworld in terms of blended “appetizers."
World
tall glasses; while the West Indies suggests variations of a subtle decoction tinted like a tropical sunset and frothed with. Л wooden stick. If he has wandered from the trail marked. by barmen in whito jackets to the wilderness of out-stations where drinking is a primitive pastime, he will shudder slightly at the recollection of plain gin and boiled water.
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THE senior clubs in the East
founded by planters and "burra sahibs" of commerce in the spacious days of drinking have their own cocktails, Many of them are historic. The By-" culla club at Bombay, the Benval club at Calcutta, the Spotted Dog at Rangoon, the Singapore, Hongkong, Shang- hai, and Tientsin clubs are in his special class.
The cocktails they serve are made to recipes handed down like a family heirloom from one generation of native barmen to the next. In these days of greater, restraint and straitened incomes they have ceased to be In the forefront of social drink- ing. but when summoned by a collector of cocktails on tour powerful Britons and Americans. that harbour communitics of of the yen, which somewhat Our alleviates the strain- upon con-
There were giant cocktails in Continental neighbours
the days when they ruled the have verted pounds and dollars, the bar. None of your niggardly never taken kindly to it. Their Anglo-American community nationals in exile carry their would go dry. prejudices with them,
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thimblefuls of diluted In-
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THE cocktail has achieved
social importance. substitute for the old-fashioned
A dinner party it finds favour in households forced on an econ- omy budget, yet wishful of giving and returning hospital ity. Carried to excess, it may
The Japanese have kindly en- gredients, such as are purveyed The French regard it as a deavoured to satisfy its de- to-day by profiteering hotels, well supplant all food. A six-to-eight-o'clock "open house," poisonous enemy of good cook- mands by manufacturing sub- bat a man's size glass filled to ing, and so we find Saigon, the stitutes for well-known brands the brim with a delicious and with martinis, is
"little Paris Hikely to drift on the tide of making no claim to be a colony cess
of the East," of Scotch and gin. Their suc- devastating blend of mysterious has not been sensational, materials known only to the the hour of American bars. aimless chatter to
grinning expert behind Go further Certain products have an ap when appetites and liver alike up the China coast to Hongkong, pearance
battles. are beyond service.
But this where
of authenticity that English is
Cocktail connoisseurs the pre does not go beyond the label. merely plays into the open hands dominant foreign tongue, and Even this has been known to their Waterloo in these potent of Harley-street. Anglo-American in origin and the sun goes down. Or even in example, the brand of whisky yours soothing to
The cocktail la peculiarly every club will be found to have create, doubt in the minds of aperitifs. Their sting is
its specific for killing care when critical foreigners,
for artfully camouflaged by la- the painte tradition. For this reason, it the middle of the day.
launched on the home market that the unsuspecting victim thrives best in foreign countries
The world-wide depression under the name "Real Queen goes to his doom without know- has affected cocktail drinking George."
Ing it. He gulps down the first even more in that part of Asia
one and finds it as The cocktail addict who goes
full-bodied interest to the American Con- NOTES OF THE DAY than in Europe, for China and travelling is likely to carry his milt as a lemon squash, and in- Japan have made imported prejudices in his personal lug- finitely more grateful to his in- second follows the liquors a luxury by imposing gage and permit them to colour terior. A tions prevailing in that part of | TREACHEROUS TRICK
Customs duties that are almost his impressions of other lands. first with no more effect than a prohibitive. the world. Eighteen countries There have been guarded re-
I know a man who talks glibly vague impression na a globe-trotter in terms of world is a bigger and better availed themselves of the oppor- ports in recent weeks of sabotage |
blended "appetisers." His con- place. A third joins the other tunity to send delegations, most aboard His Majesty's ships. In SHANGHAI was once a par- ception of the may of the world. two.
adise of systematic drinkers. is a vast bar divided by climate of them representing Govern- various naval depots of Britain. The bacardi cocktail, the ments, employers' and workers. Yesterday two more instances wore "China side" speciality, in its and terperature into many com- SUDDENLY he feels a slight "plop" at the base of his skull, the universe slowly turns mentioned. No-one can guess who various forms from simple rum Costa Rica, although not a mem-
may be responsible; the Admiralty and fruit juice to high-powered
upside down, massed. bands ber of the I.L.O., thought it is at-n loss, having investigated
combinations with ginand.
thinks you mean the flowers, bloom all around him. worth her while to have an each of the incidents carefully, and liqueurs added, was a nopane MENTION the Taj Mahal and play a heavenly symphony, and vehicle for gilding the night, Bombay hotel.. with its alert He falls into a tail spin a thou- official observer in attendance. has finally called in Scotland Yard, and its cost was negligible. Goaness
The Yard took over the case three Now, that the Nanking govern- merely
waiters. Shanghai sand miles to nowhere, and on Great Britain, indirectly, had an weeks or a month ago and two ment is squeezing foreign Im- of all. Ask how he liked Pei- loses much time wondering recalls the longest bar. hitting solid earth hours later. interest in the Conference, send-more of those deliberate attempts ports to the limit, It has be- ping and he will become fluent what happened. ing two representatives, while to delay the work aboard His come a rich man's toy. Many on the subject of diplomatic These forms of bottled light- Mr. Riddell of Canada attended Majesty's ships have occurred. It of its former patrons are drink- parties in the Legation quarter ning also haunt the African looks as though the perpetrator ing spirits thriftily, and some made indiscreetly conversa- ports. There is one, the inven- have been driven back to beer. tional by copious portions of tion of a suave Goanese barman heavily upon the favourite in- in a shaker.
Japan presses even more tax-free liquors thrown together at Mombasa, who has given it his name, thereby hoping to gredients of antithirst mix- His memories of African achieve immortality. It is pink tures desired by her depression coast towns are bounded by in colour and a tower of
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as Chairman of the Governing had either very little fear of dis- Body. One of the most inter-covery or very scant respect for esting resolutions asked Geneva | Scotland Yard. to set on foot expert enquiries We can only hope he blunders, with regard to migration from presently, and puts himself into the Europe to America. The hope hands of those who are seeking was expressed that, as soon as him. There is nothing" more possible, this subject would be treacherous and sneaking than a placed on the agenda of the trick of this sort, cutting a hidden International Labour Confer and vital electrical connection, ence. It was felt that it would loosening a piece of machinery, be useful to have the principles pouring acid on a key bolt, and the ilke, calculated to do governing migration and colon- isation set out in an internation- Majesty's service, if nothing worse. serious, damage to a ship in His al agreement. The American
The malefactor does not think or States, too, showed a keen care about the men who may suffer interest in the subject of social loss of life or limb because of him.. insurance. They heartily ap- Whether he is motivated by proved of the spadework done at politics, whether he is a hireling Genova, and recommended that of
some sort of anarchist movo- compulsory Insurance against ment, or whether he la acting with accidents, sickness, invalidity, some perverted iden of helping to old age and death should be provide work or to enact some sort organised throughout Amèrica. of vengeance, the "trade of. this Little surprise should be felt at worker of sabotage is a loath some the enthusiasm for industrial one. He will richly deserve the progress which was so apparent punishment he will certainly re-
colvo: at the Conference. In the last few years, the Latin American! States have been developing a other country, while Nicaragua consciousness of their short- and Uruguay come next on the 'comings, combined with an list, with thirty ratifications apparently - sincere desire for each. Whatever may be the reform. This tendency has shortcomings of the Leaguo of found reflection in the ratifica- Nations in its political activities, tion of the International Labour there can be nothing but praise Conventions adopted at the con- for the valuable work it is ferences in Genova and else achieving in industrial matters where. It is significant that as well as in connection with Chile hures with Spain the questions portaining to problems. honour of having ratified more of health as they affect all parts conventions (e. 38) than, any of the world.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"I think I'll ask Mrs. Fonkblossom to arrange the seating at
the table; she knows just which of the guests aren't on speaking terms.
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strength in the wilderness. The architect will not divulge Its secret.. Strong silent men come off ships at Kilindinf Harbour and form guessing parties at his dispensary. De- feat overcomes them, and they go back to the docks prattling like children at their mother's knee.
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THE cocktail drunkard goes further and falla deeper in his quest for a new "kick" than almost any other type of ex- plorer in the limitless field of alcoholism.
A now low-level record was. achieved in my presence during a recent tour in the Far East. : Several conservative consumers of mild bacardis were sitting in a bar much frequented by world. travellers when there entered a bemused Individual in search oft the elixir of life. He had ap parently
tried all ordinary forms of mixed drinks without: success, for he leaned across the bar and, with extreme gravity; enumerated the ingredients he desired compounded in equal proportions. The barman re garded him in a stunned way, and slowly set about the horrid: business. H
When the creature had got to work on it the barman came to us and said, "Can you beat it? He is drinking gin, bacardi rum, vodka, Scotch whisky, and Grand Marnier!
That man is beyond Harley. street. Somewhere an unider- taker is waiting for him. ̈ ̈
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